Comments on: Principles of Taoism http://www.peaceinspiration.com/2008/05/22/principles-of-taoism/ Welcome to a Peace Spiritual Inspiration, a peaceful place where you can rest and be recharge, be inspired by Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Stories, Inspirational , astrology, Spiritual Poems and Articles. Your one stop to everything about Inspiration. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:32:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Shonda Cunninghamhttp://www.peaceinspiration.com/2008/05/22/principles-of-taoism/comment-page-1/#comment-10617 Shonda Cunningham Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:37:18 +0000 http://www.peaceinspiration.com/?p=837#comment-10617 "The Tao is classically represented in Taoist temples by three statues. These statues of male figures represent the Tao as the Origin, the Tao as manifest in the human form of the sage Lao Zi and the Tao as Word , as found in the Tao Te Ching."This reminds me a lot of my World Religions professor's explanation of the Christian concept of the Trinity in that God is Father (i.e. Source or Origin) and somehow he became manifest in the Holy Spirit and his word became flesh in the human form of Jesus Christ (if I understood him correctly). My question is are there any connections between the Taoish representations of the Tao mentioned in this article and the notion of the Trinity in Christianity? Was Christianity influenced by Taoism? “The Tao is classically represented in Taoist temples by three statues. These statues of male figures represent the Tao as the Origin, the Tao as manifest in the human form of the sage Lao Zi and the Tao as Word , as found in the Tao Te Ching.”

This reminds me a lot of my World Religions professor’s explanation of the Christian concept of the Trinity in that God is Father (i.e. Source or Origin) and somehow he became manifest in the Holy Spirit and his word became flesh in the human form of Jesus Christ (if I understood him correctly). My question is are there any connections between the Taoish representations of the Tao mentioned in this article and the notion of the Trinity in Christianity? Was Christianity influenced by Taoism?

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